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22 February 2019

Here's how it works: The Recent Releases chart brings together critical reaction to new albums from more than 50 sources worldwide. It's updated daily. Albums qualify with 5 reviews, and drop out after 6 weeks into the longer timespan charts.

8.3 |
A.V. Club

The best of these remixes excite and innovate in ways their counterparts didn’t
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8.033209

8.0 |
Drowned In Sound

It grows, fades and breathes like an album should, it provides enough singles to make it the envy of many a record, and it also demonstrates what a perfect stem the original TKOL was
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8.033154

8.0 |
Clash

These tracks are both club and headphone worthy, insular and expansive, ephemeral and dense, lush and skeletal
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8.033156

8.0 |
Mojo

This collection showcases work by 19 of the band's favourite electronic minds. Print edition only

7.533157

7.5 |
The Quietus

The sound of Radiohead engaging with a creative underground they've both inspired and draw a great deal of inspiration from
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7.033158

7.0 |
BBC

Its most successful examples retain some Radiohead DNA, but reconstituted into a new form. That’s fitting testament to a band that remains eager to avoid repeating themselves.
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7.033339

7.0 |
Slant Magazine

Does a better job at delivering Radiohead's snowy ennui than its forebearer, suggesting that the band should have collaborated with these electronic purveryors from the get-go and skipped The King of Limbs altogether.
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7.033474

7.0 |
music OMH

The album's cold soul does not lend itself to a carefree, fun-loving dance floor, and as such, the mutations herein are tentative, fragile things built on the backs of their producers
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7.033561

7.0 |
The Line Of Best Fit

This remix project turns the album’s weaknesses into a strength by providing plentiful building blocks for the artists on remixing duties
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7.033614

7.0 |
Consequence Of Sound

It expands substantially on the tangeted, capricious nature of the record that many complained about to begin with, and ultimately serves as a very compelling companion to The King of Limbs
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7.033634

7.0 |
Daily Telegraph

These are darker, sexier, nocturnal interpretations that synth fans will love and guitar-favouring Radiohead fans should probably give a miss
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6.034246

6.0 |
Q

As long as you're up for more mood and texture experiments there's plenty of interest. Print edition only

6.033368

6.0 |
Pitchfork

Too many of these 19 artists seem content to settle for bland beauty, or simply apply their usual sonic tricks without pushing themselves in the slightest
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6.033413

6.0 |
Uncut

Radiohead appear to have commissioned a remix record that sounds, in tone and mood at least, rather a lot like Radiohead. Print edition only
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6.033423

6.0 |
The Digital Fix

Diverting and interesting rather than captivating. A curiosity only. None supplant the originals but there’s no filler here either
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5.033482

5.0 |
PopMatters

Too often TKOL RMX 1234567 feels as calculated and mechanical as its soulless title
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